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Long-Term Unemployment
economistsview.typepad.com - 11/1/2009
Long-Term Unemployment
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US Unemployment, 2004-09
ritholtz.com - 30 days ago
US Unemployment, 2004-09
— ritholtz.com — Tomorrow is NFP day — and when those numbers come out, we won’t have much time to... discuss much else. So while I am winging to Austin early this a.m., I wanted to share these interesting run of charts, via F lowing Data , showing ... (more) US Unemployment, 2004-09

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nytimes.com - 28 days ago
Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%
— nytimes.com — For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as... bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now. With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment ... (more) Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5%

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Unemployment rate hits 10.2% in October
marketwatch.com - 29 days ago
Unemployment rate hits 10.2% in October
— marketwatch.com — Alert Email Print By Rex Nutting , MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to... 10.2% in October, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls dropped by ... (more) Unemployment rate hits 10.2% in October

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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  Long-Term Unemployment Turns into Structural Unemployment

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Long-Term Unemployment Turns into Structural Unemployment
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Mark Thoma makes a graph: those who have been unemployed for more than six months divided by the civilian noninstitutional population 16 and over: ...

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